Just wondering , how safe is your pc , as in what do you generally keep on the hd and if someone were to phisically steal the pc would they be able to access your info etc..

Do you keep things like banking income etc or is it just a gaming console

Thanx

:rolleyes:

09-15-2003

Sebastiani

I don't generally store sensitive info on my computer. But the computer boots with a bios password, so unless someone does some drastic tinkering, they won't have a chance getting in. :)

Other than that, I use a shredder program I wrote that works like an automated 'recycle bin' which zero's out the file contents before deleting the file, runs scheduled batch jobs, etc, etc.

Internally, I don't allow any program to run from startup other than system ones, and monitor my registry, file accesses, tcip connections, and running processes, etc.

I don't store important source code on it either - instead I package the ones I use everyday into static libraries and simply delete the source, or if I want to keep the source I store it elsewhere (not that I have very much important code or anything, but it's a good practice anyway).

09-15-2003

GSLR

mmm interesting

so we have computers and scanners and the software to manage all this private info of ours , yet we prefer not to use it

stranger thing have happened i guess !

09-15-2003

Brian

Quote:

Originally posted by Sebastiani I don't generally store sensitive info on my computer. But the computer boots with a bios password, so unless someone does some drastic tinkering, they won't have a chance getting in. :)